Fear in Recovery
Some fears before and during recovery may include (name 3):
What is DUI/incarceration; hospitalization; crisis; relapse; loss of custody, job, housing, health; change/ unknown; physical harm; punishment or retaliation; someone finding out about addiction; diagnosis of psychiatric or substance disorder.
These medications work against a particular disorder.
What are medications termed "anti-"?
The acronym FEAR
This refers to the poisonous effects caused by alcohol and other drugs as the result of the build-up of acetaldehyde and chemicals in the brain and body.
What is toxicity?
This "Window Pane" in the Johari Window model contains things you know about yourself but others don't. This can include sensitive feelings or information you freely choose to keep to yourself.
What is Window Pane 3?
What is Fear in the Group Process?
This combination of is most effective treatment.
What is psychotherapy and medication.
It is rarely appropriate to provide medication alone. Studies have shown that medications don't work very well in the long-term.
These are emotions that are brought on by circumstances like financial difficulties that can trigger unpleasant emotional responses.
What are External/Exogenous emotional responses?
The four brain states.
What are brain on drugs, acute withdrawal brain, post acute withdrawal brain, and recovering brain?
This "Window Pane" in the Johari Window model contains things that are known to you and others. This pane is the place where you are an "open book" and can include information that does not need self-disclosure and what you tell them.
What is Window Pane 1?
To overcome fear, a person must realize that fear is there.
What is Acknowledging Fear?
They can often be prevented, are minor compared to living with untreated condition, go away after a few days or weeks, and can be alleviated with proper adjustments with physician.
What are basics of side effects?
Dissociation or suppression; messages about emotions from family or society; trying to control psychiatric symptoms; projecting; personal attitudes about emotions; and creating an emptiness or "void" with substance use.
What are ways of avoiding painful emotions?
These three brain states create the "vicious cycle".
What are brain on dugs, acute withdrawals, and post acute withdrawals?
This "Window Pane" in the Johari Window model contains things that are not known to you and are not known to others.
What is Window Pane 4?
Most fears come from living in a fearful past and projecting that fear into this.
What is the future?
Ways to take medications properly.
What are taking all medications exactly as prescribed, and never discontinue medications without medical advice?
The high intensity feeling of happiness.
What is ecstatic?
Why is a person with six months of sobriety less toxic than a person who relapses one month?
The person with six months of sobriety had more time to clear; The person with one month is still in the "vicious cycle".
This "Window Pane" in the Johari Window model contains things about you that you are not aware of, but others see more clearly, including personality traits, mannerisms, verbal cues, and how we relate to others.
What is Window Pane 2?
Finish this phrase:
"Sharing pain cuts it in half,___________"
What is "sharing happiness doubles it."
Being realistic with expectations and not giving up on prescribed medications is a way to practice this.
What is patience
It takes time for medications to work!
This makes the difference in whether or not we get into trouble with one another or ourselves.
What is how emotions are expressed or what we do with them.
The pattern of the brain "waking up".
What is from the bottom to the top?
The names of the developers of the Johari Window model?
Who are Joseph Luft and Harry Ingram.
Joseph+Harry=Johari